Re: [orca-list] Skype on Linux

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Le 18/02/2018 à 06:00, Edhoari Setiyoso a écrit :
> Alex,

Hello Edhoari,

> I just test skype directly from web.skype.com and it just connect on 
> first try. Btw, I have a few questions if you don't mind
>
>  1. Using Firefox, I cannot make audio call. The button is disabled. How
>     to enable it? I'm able to make audio call using google chrome but
>     I'd rather use Firefox if possible.

Officially, it doesn't work on Firefox. The only way to make it working 
is to override the Firefox user-agent.
The steps to accomplish that are:
1) Open Firefox
2) Open about:config
3) Create a new key: contextual menu then new then string:
general.useragent.override et valider ;
4) Enter the Edge user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, 
like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36 Edge/15.15063

>  2. How to navigate chat history?

You could install pidgin-skype that supports Skype web chat messages, 
not call or video chat.
You could download it from there: 
https://framadrop.org/r/UcwhfD7Rtv#MjAg4osfdg0GRbtECEirojgH4SWSXcpboXKuWudnhK0=

> The connections is frequently failed using extension. Not sure why.

Without the extension, it always works on my tests.

Best regards,
Alex.